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A Child with Headache and Depression

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The relationship between chronic headache and depression in children and adolescents is interrelated. The course of chronic primary headache may get complicated with a depressive illness, and children with primary depressive disorder may also have their illness complicated with a primary headache disorder. Therefore, headache and psychiatric disorders (especially depression and anxiety) are frequently comorbid, and as such the management of comorbid conditions, ongoing conflicts, and family psychopathology are important requirement in order to achieve successful management of the headache. This chapter discusses the case of a girl with depression who also presented with a headache disorder. The risk factor, phenotypic characteristics, differential diagnosis, management algorithm, and pointers to good prognosis will also be discussed and highlighted.

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  1. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Mersin University School of Medicine, Mersin, Turkey

    Veli Yıldırım

  2. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Başkent University, Adana Dr. Turgut Noyan Medical and Research Center, Adana, Turkey

    M. Özlem Kütük

  3. Department of Neurology, Mersin University School of Medicine, Mersin, Turkey

    Aynur Özge MD

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  1. Royal Hospital for Children , Larbert, United Kingdom

    Ishaq Abu-Arafeh

  2. Department of Neurology, Mersin University School of Medicine, Mersin, Turkey

    Aynur Özge

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Yıldırım, V., Kütük, M.Ö., Özge, A. (2016). A Child with Headache and Depression. In: Abu-Arafeh, I., Özge, A. (eds) Headache in Children and Adolescents. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28628-0_32

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